Inspiration from a Learner-Centered Classroom: 4 Ideas To Try This Year
High-impact practices and examples that foster agency and empower learners to flex their strengths and pursue their interests.
3 part series: How Portfolio School Designs for a Learner-Centered Experience Throughout the Year
Portfolio leaders and educators share how they engage educators and learners in the design, practice, iteration, and celebration of a learner-centered experience throughout their community all year long.
Spark Online Academy: Designing a Learner-Centered Online Public School
Colorado public school Spark Online Academy took the best of pandemic online learning and created a learner-centered, online school steeped in personal connection and engaging learning experiences. Read their story.
Why some California school districts are changing how students earn grades
Some of California’s largest school districts are trying an unconventional tactic to help students re-engage in school after distance learning and boost their chances of acceptance into the state’s public colleges.
Forsyth County Schools: Fostering Learner Agency in a 3rd Grade Classroom
There are many powerful examples of teachers incorporating learner agency into their instructional frameworks. See how a 3rd grade teacher in at Vickery Elementary in Forsyth County Schools in Georgia grounds learning in choice and ownership.
The Role of Reading in Learner-Centered Education
Literacy is at the heart of learner-centered education. Uncover how reading supports four critical components of the learner-centered education and contributes to student success.
WestEd Altitude Learning Literature Review
This literature review provides an overview of best practices and common discourses that have shaped professional learning, with an emphasis on teaching that supports learner-centered practices. The literature reviews summarizes these findings by framing the goal of professional learning (PL) for learner- centered practices (LCP) as the development of focused, flexible professionals. These three themes— focused, flexible, and professionals—were encountered in various forms across the literature, and they provide a helpful framing for organizing our findings toward the goal of engendering learner-centered practices.
Supporting Statewide Change Through Virtual Course Access Models
The Moving Forward coalition formed to bring together and apply the best thinking and learning from the field in a way that accounts for compliance-related constraints, provides a convenient, one-stop-shop for SEA leaders, and delivers these services at a competitive rate while engaging experienced practitioners.
Supporting District Change Through Learner-Centered Leadership
The Moving Forward coalition formed to bring together and apply the best thinking and learning from the field in a way that accounts for compliance-related constraints, provides a convenient, one-stop-shop for SEA leaders, and delivers these services at a competitive rate while engaging experienced practitioners.
Supporting Statewide Change Through New Models for Remote Education
The Moving Forward coalition formed to bring together and apply the best thinking and learning from the field in a way that accounts for compliance-related constraints, provides a convenient, one-stop-shop for SEA leaders, and delivers these services at a competitive rate while engaging experienced practitioners.
Supporting Statewide Change Through Microgrants to Families
The Moving Forward coalition formed to bring together and apply the best thinking and learning from the field in a way that accounts for compliance-related constraints, provides a convenient, one-stop-shop for SEA leaders, and delivers these services at a competitive rate while engaging experienced practitioners.
A Question of Trust: The Arcadia Unified Better Together Project
Arcadia Unified School District Superintendent, David Vanasdall, was visiting classrooms and noticed that every student in a kindergarten classroom had produced the exact same piece of artwork. It struck him in that moment how the learning experiences in many cases were at odds with the aspirations that they shared as a community.
5 Reasons Every Learner Needs Project-Based Learning in Their Life
Real-world learning translates into real-world knowledge and skills. How can this type of contextual learning benefit your child?
5 Ways to Drive Student Agency with Goal-Setting
Enabling students to take control of their own learning is one of the most powerful results of a learner-centric education. We share five techniques for cultivating student agency.
Hawaii Public Charter Schools: Collaborating to Scale and Sustain Competency-Based Learning
Brought together by a shared vision to create a more expansive student transcript reflecting whole child learning, charter schools in Hawaii offer a glimpse into their process—from vision to implementation.
El Segundo Unified School District: Realizing Personalized, Student-Centered Learning
The El Segundo Unified School District (ESUSD) embraces innovative practice for student growth and empowerment. The District motto, Transforming Education for a Changing World, highlights a focus on the true transformation needed for students to be successful in a vastly different world than previously known. A member of the prestigious League of Innovative Schools, ESUSD is constantly seeking to learn, grow, and improve their practices to be a leader in education innovation.
